Quotes About Conceit

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

A man may be humble through vainglory.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

The mother of creation is vanity.

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

Proudness is from ignorance, humbleness is from wisdom